Superstar

Superstar
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Last night my dear friend Niffer and I went to see Jesus Christ Superstar at the North Shore Music Theatre. It was really really good. The guy who played Jesus was pretty and a great singer. As was the woman who played Mary Magdeline. But the one who really surprised me was The guy who played Judas. He is the embarassingly named Delisco. I was really moved by the show. It was both better musically and darker than I thought it would be.

In the early 70's my mom listened to the soundtrack over and over. It was very cool to hear the music again and I had to laugh because I really only know the songs that were on sides one and three of the double album set. Apparently Mom wasn't a big fan of sides two and four.

Broken

gothkid
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One of my library aides from last year is in jail. A sweet little pothead Goth kid who liked to update his MySpace account and read the I Ching is now in the big house hopefully not making special new friends.

Apparently he is involved in a pretty serious assult/robbery and since he is 18 he is in deep. The group of people he was with nearly killed a man and stole his wallet. The poor guy is in ICU and it is touch and go as to whether he will survive. And Gothkid used the ATM card to withdraw money. Somehow it is really important to me that Gothkid wasn't in on the hurting but rather just did the stealing. I know that is stupid.

And so I wonder at what point was this set in motion? Is there something broken in him now?

Sorry, no funny in this one. Other than the funny South Park kid.

Fatty McFatburger

Fatty McFatburger
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Last night I made my 8 year old son's dream come true and let him watch Morgan Spurlock's Supersize Me. It was really interesting. I was a little nervous because in this house we don't talk about FAT as a bad thing. Some people are fat and some are not. Just like some people have squeaky voices or curley hair.

The movie didn't mention attractiveness or appearance at all and the health benefits didn't deal so much with overweight as they did with healthy eating and exercies which is a fine (but in my opinion important) point.

So the new plan is this. Everyone in the family is going to plan 2 meals a week. Since we are 4 one person not only gets the week off of meal planning, but also gets to choose where and which night we will eat out or get take out. Oh the power! And we are off the soda.

The irony here is that Mr.-8-year-old loves him some Mickey D's. Poor little troll.

In other news I am having a Pampered Chef party. I feel like a whore. But I want a pizza stone. And I am not afraid to shatter the barrier between friendship and commerce to get it. But I will be telling all the invitees that they are under no obligation to come and I will respect them if they tell me I am a horrible person. But I still want the pizza stone.

Another reason I am posting is because I just read an article on RSS feeds and I set one up. And goober that I am, my first blog on the feed is this on. In case I ever post in my sleep and then forget that I did, I will be aware when I check my feed. And don't I sound cool saying, "Check my feed?" Library media specialist!

Older than I am Young...

old lady with naughty ooooooh look
Originally uploaded by brunhildecrow.

Isn't this picture my evil (or less evil) 1963 twin? I am a little scared because it wouldn't take much for me to look just like her. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I am practicing this face even as I type. And I can't take credit for the flickr title. I Google-imaged "old lady" and came up with this from some now defunct blog and couldn't bear to change the name.

So the reason I am all about the old is because I was up walking at 5:30. ( I was returning library books, if you must know, and I am well aware of how insanely geeky that makes me. Walking to the library to return books at the crack 'ho' dawn. See picture above.) And while I was walking I happened to wonder what the date was. And so I lifted my watch with my tiny little date wheel to my face only to find that lo and behold, someone had replaced my convenient little date wheel with an amorphous blob! Imagine my surprise. And so I did what the newly aged have been doing since time immemorial. I lifted my glasses and held the damn thing up to my eye. I could see the date. Oh my stars, I am old.

Additional evidence is that [Wil], my 3rd grader, has a kindergarten book buddy. Yes, he is on the mature, responsible end of the book buddy spectrum. Gadzooks!

And since I mentioned my younger son, I should mention my older son. I believe I am calling him Fred, (Internet safety - ever vigilent. Or dopey.) He said the best thing to me yesterday. "Mom, you know how they say you get an extra 7 seconds of life for each time you laugh? Well, I must have gained 15 minutes today." I thought that was wonderful.

Unbunning!

I was just reading an email from a website cataloging lady who is wonderful. See wrote an article about building your library's website which I read an thought, "Someday..." Anyway she said that librarians need to get serious about "unbunning" which means we must stop acting as if we have the Encyclopedia Britannica up our collective asses. I thouth it was an excellent term.

See, Mosey Posy sent me a nice comment about how nice it was to have me writing again, and this is what she gets for her trouble. Boring library stuff.

I will probably be more interesting eventually.

It's corndog season, my boy!

Fall...
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The rivers are just swollen with their nitrate-y goodness.

Man, it has been a long time since I posted. I had a list as long as my arm of things I wanted to write about and now that I am writing, I can remember none of them. Sure, the basic ideas are still there - but the pithy bon mots I was going to toss our like croutons on the spinach salad of my opinions are gone.

Here are my fun fun fun topics that I was going to make funny (really!):

1 - Global Warming and the inevitable forthcoming ice age

2- Women's Rights and their being chucked out the window in the aforementioned global disaster

3 - What I like to watch on TV

4 - How fat I am becoming

5 - At what point will I be in too much discomfort in my golden years (see above) to want to stay alive

6 - Is Jepoardy getting harder or am I getting dumber?

7 - When did I become the kind of person who gets impatient with children in restaurants and why don't they offer child-free seating?

8 - What are the odds that I will write in this blog again before next spring?

No no! I am going to be devoted and keep this baby going...

Really.